Learning more about nutrition
I just started reading Eating Well for Optimum Health last night.It's an interesting read with a great deal of technical information about carbs, fats and proteins and how these are consumed and used by the body. It's not an easy read because the information is fairly technical, but Andrew Weil does a good job.
I'm reading this because I was watching an episode of Scientific American Frontiers the other night while using the treadmill. The episode, called Fat and Happy included a section with Dr. Roy Walford talking about the nutritional content of the food that we eat. He also spoke about living on less food as long as it provides the nutrition that we need.
Now all this makes logical sense to me. However emotionally it may be very hard to accomplish.
So I decided it's worth reading up some more on this topic and also trying to see if I could find some recipes that were nutritional and delicious.
Hence this book from the library, which includes recipes. And I've got one of Roy Walford's books on order from my library.
I'll post a mini-review when I'm done with each of these.
In the meantime, has anyone done any reading on nutrition? Have you suggestions for recipe books or recipes that are:
- A. Easy
- B. Delicious
- C. Low carb/calorie
- D. Nutritious
posted by Bernard @ 1:17 PM
4 Comments:
Oooh - I'll be watching for comments on this post Bernard - excellent idea!
I feel that my knowledge level about eating and nutrition is a real weak point in my therapy.
P.S. I'm still grinning from you e-mail. Just makes me chuckle!
Eating well is really hard. I grew up with a bio-chem prof mom who knew all about what evils lie in most foods, and so she made our bread, babyfood, you name it from scratch. Frankly, the idea of that sounds exhausting.
What I do do, at my mother's suggestion, is hedge my bets by subscribing to Nutrition Action Newsletter, which is an AWESOME publication put out by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an autonomous group that researches health matters.
Nutrition Action Newsletter is wonderful because it gives you real information, information proven by double blind controlled studies, and no new-agey hocus pocus (which drives me nuts). You can get some of the articles online for free, and a year's subscription, I think, is about 10$.
I very much appreciate their realism; they may have an article on what fruit offers the optimum nutritional benefit, but they also will have an article ranking things like packaged dinners, or bottled salad dressings.
Good luck on your path to better eating!! :) Let us know what you learn!
Hi Bernard,
Thanks for commenting and the E-mail, I've sent you one back. She's really not fussed what meter it is.
Thanks,
Vic x
Anonymous,
Thanks for the pointer to the Nutrition Action Newsletter. I just started a subscription to it, and I'm looking forward to learning more about nutrition and eating better.
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